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February 16, 2011, Wednesday

How fitting that the Dow Jones industrial average is back to its 1998 levels. John W. Meriwether, whose hedge fund, Long-Term Capital Management, flamed out in spectacular fashion that year, is gaining ground once again. Mr. Meriwether has amassed...

Now that he has put the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management behind him, John Meriwether is apparently willing to assume a more public profile. Mr. Meriwether, who was the lead manager of Long-Term, the hedge fund that suffered huge losses after...

John Meriwether is ready to apologize, but not ready to quit. Two years ago, high-risk strategies drove his hedge fund empire, Long-Term Capital Management, to the brink of collapse and unsettled world financial markets. Now Mr. Meriwether, 52, is...

The rescuers of Long-Term Capital Management L.P. said today that they were taking $800 million out of the hedge fund and had recovered half of their $3.6 billion bailout. The 14 banks, including Goldman Sachs Group and Merrill Lynch & Company, must...

September 9, 1999, Thursday

Ask Wall Street experts to name two financiers whose fortunes are tied most closely to the bond market and they would most likely settle on Jon S. Corzine, the chairman of Goldman Sachs Group, and John W. Meriwether, founder of the hedge fund...

Sanford I. Weill, the co-chief executive of Citigroup, excels at sizing up risks. He has swallowed up numerous firms, including Salomon Smith Barney, to create the world's largest financial company, winning praise for shrewdly negotiating the...

To the Editor: An Oct. 2 Business Day article disputed an anecdote about a million-dollar contest of liar's poker -- a game played with serial numbers on a dollar bill -- that appears in my book ''Liar's Poker'' without providing my version of...